Talladega murder trial set to begin

Jury selection is expected to begin today in Talladega County in the murder trial of 22 year old Corry R. Averett, of Sylacauga.  Averett is accused in the November 2004 murder of 26 year old Roscoe Desmond Anderson III. Anderson’s body was found in the road in front of his residence on Marion Avenue in Sylacauga after suffering several gunshot wounds. At the time, witnesses reported hearing several shots and seeing two different vehicles driving off in different directions. The Sylacauga Police Department investigation went on for nearly five years before Averett was charged with murder. He was indicted by a grand jury in August 2009 when Averett was in federal prison in Georgia for a weapons violation.If convicted of murder with the use of a firearm, Averett faces 20 to 99 years or life in prison.